WE GOT POWER!: Saccharine Trust’s Masterpiece Paganicons Is Back in Print!

October 20, 2015

Paganicons, the wonderfully gnarled and disturbing debut twelve-inch from long-running Southern California beat punks Saccharine Trust is finally—mysteriously, even!—back in print in vinyl form after many years of lying dormant in the vaults at SST Records.

Released in 1981, the eight-song record was a crystalline shout of poetic perfection during the hardcore punk awakening of America’s youth. Too early in the game to be considered post-hardcore, but too late—and too uniquely American—to be post-punk, the band existed in its own hyper-aware reality, blasting away in front of bemused buzz-headed audiences alongside bands like Black Flag, Minutemen, and Flipper.